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This movement celebrated the nation’s distant past—a time, supposedly, when Anglo-Saxon Protestantism was the dominant force in American life... By this calculation, which obviously favored Nordics and Anglo-Saxons, there would be an estimated 80 percent reduction of Eastern and Southern Europeans from the prewar average....

While there is often discussion among progressives about the Nordic social democratic model, there is little understanding in Anglo-American debate that the key to building the ‘social’ has been the ‘democracy’ ... Secondly, Anglo-Britain (the Welsh, Irish and Scots have different stories), maintains a cognitive dissonance about the monarchy....

In fact, a century ago, modern Nordic inspired themselves by emphasizing that the Vikings, in their expeditions, went where no one had gone before, thereby justifying the value of innovation. The modern Vikings went ahead and invented in the 1930s what economists call "the Nordic economic model," the most egalitarian in history....

But what’s so wrong with that? Reader, I sat in a hipster cafe in London’s East End and prepared to find out ... Twitter ... These are all excellent schemes, many in the tradition of Nordic rather than Anglo-American capitalism, or in line with the latest ideas about increased employee ownership and rights for “gig economy” workers from John McDonnell ... .......

For them, the Nordic “race” – that is, people from Northern Europe, like Anglo-Americans – was the master race ... “The Nordic race will vanish or lose its dominance,” renowned Yale professor and economist Irving Fisher warned in 1921 ... or the dwindling of the Anglo-American “stock.”....

"There should be no room for opportunistic and cynical efforts to gain small partial results in the short run while shifting equally significant costs and damages to future generations," the Pope told an audience that included international leaders from BP, Exxon Mobil, Statoil and multinational mining company Anglo-American....

Why? Because Nelson was descended from “the true Nordic line”, “from the race which set up strong gods and bred strong men”. “Nordic” was yet another code, used in the same ways that the Nazis would use “Aryan” ... But in practice, Nordic was used to describe anyone who was blond, white, Caucasian or Anglo-Saxon....

OPINION. My local supermarket ran a promotion. And what they had on offer was knives. Bread knives, chef's knives, vegetable knives, cleavers. The display by the checkout would have brought gasps from a jury ... The first ones were flint ... A knife dealt to everything ... And the word could only be Anglo-Saxon. It's as hard and as sharp as the nordic climate....